During this pivotal event in the Civil Rights struggle, 4,000 African-American students were arrested, succeeding in filling the jails and ultimately achieving desegregation. Told from the perspective of four of those protesters.

What do you call a bird who in its lifetime has flown the equivalent of the distance to the moon and nearly half way back in 20 years? By tracing the course of B95, aka Moonbird, this book explores how man’s impact on the environment affects these plucky little migratory birds.

This true story reads like a spy thriller, complete with saboteurs behind Nazi lines, scientists working in a secret location, and Soviet spies trying to steal the plans for the bomb from the Americans.

ke about 100 different facial expressions? Dogs talk with their tails, body posture, ears, and of course, smell. Whether you’re a dog owner, a dog lover, or just what to know how to tell if the dog you meet on the street wants to be friends or fight, this book will help you translate canine messages.

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The story of Zeina’s childhood, growing up in Beirut during the civil war when snipers, barricades and barbed separate the family’s apartment building from the rest of the city. One night, Zeina’s parents are out in the city when the bombing starts, and the residents come together in the family’s apartment to keep the children company during the tense wait for their return.

A no-holds barred look at life with a profound disability using humor to describe everyday situations. Burcaw doesn’t shy away from relating embarrassing moments and is quite frank about bodily functions.

Explores the riveting events surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John F. Kennedy, telling the story of two men whose lives would intersect in Dallas with tragic results. Swanson examines conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination and provides detailed diagrams and illustrations as well as an extensive list of sources.

From the first, nineteenth-century experiments to the top-secret Manhattan Project, this graphic novel follows the dramatic race to build the first atomic bomb. Some of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century struggled first to design the bomb and then with the ethics of using it.

While the American military fought for democracy and freedom overseas during World War II, fear and suspicion led to the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps. Sandler draws on unpublished interviews and oral histories to tell the story of this dark period in American history.

During WWII, the US Navy was still segregated. Black sailors were assigned to menial jobs like cleaning for Navy personnel or loading ammunition on ships at a segregated base called Port Chicago. After a massive explosion killed more than 300 men, the remaining munitions handlers refused to return to loading the dangerous cargo without proper training and safety measures. They were charged with mutiny and convicted. Their treatment created a national uproar that ultimately forced the U.S. Navy to desegregate.

A glittering and out of touch Imperial Family, the rising influence of the controversial mystic, Rasputin, and the grinding poverty of the Russian People combine to touch off a violent revolution that will end in the tragic deaths of the Romanov Family.

This collection of essays from North American indigenous youth is genuine and eye opening. Balancing tradition, cultural heritage and contemporary life, these teens write about what it means to be a Native American youth.

This book tells the story of the first Confederate submarine to sink a ship. The H.L. Hunley mysteriously vanished after the 1864 attack and remained missing until its rediscovery in 1995. Walker examines possible causes of its disappearance, efforts to preserve its remains, and modern archaeological methods used to learn about the Hunley and its crew.